Alex, you win the cookie! 4 ticks for 30,000 IP addresses! If we ever meet at a conference remind me and I will buy you beers. Not saying how namy, just more than one. :-)
Bob S > On Jun 29, 2018, at 16:54 , Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Why not just do it directly (avoid the function call) ... > > function sortIPList2 pIPList > set the itemdelimiter to "." > try > sort lines of pIPList ascending numeric \ > by (item 1 of each * 16777216) + \ > (item 2 of each *65536) + \ > (item 3 of each *256) + \ > (item 4 of each ) > catch theError > breakpoint > end try > return pIPList > end sortIPList2 > > or if you prefer ... > by item 4 of each + 256 * ( item 3 of each + 256 * (item 2 of each + 256 * > item 1 of each )) > ... > > Alex. > > On 30/06/2018 00:41, hh via use-livecode wrote: >> Your IP addresses [0-255].[0-255].[0-255].[0-255] >> are the hex IP numbers converted to base 256. >> So you may try the following sorting function that >> converts the IPs from base 256 to base 10 (decimal). >> >> function ip2dec x >> set itemdel to "." >> repeat with i=0 to 3 >> add (item 4-i of x)*256^i to y >> end repeat >> return y >> end ip2dec >> >> on mouseUp >> put fld "ips" into s >> sort s numeric by ip2dec(each) # <---- >> put s into fld "out" >> end mouseUp >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
